Datasheet for Servitor Battleclade

[Bouargh]

I have just noticed that the Servitor battleclade has been entitled with a Datasheet for 40k with the latest release of updates in the download section.

 

eng_4-ruimiuzt2c.pdf

 

The main comment is that the point value went down vs. the Legendary Servitor unit. Which is a good thing… you now pay more or less the same for 8 Servitor + underseer than previously for 4 servitors. And the ones without HW still get a decent shooting. Not a bad trade off. Yet you loose flexibility as only single hand weapons can be customized now.

With T set at 4 Servitors are likely to be more resilient and can become an annoying little unit that may block objectives for a while.

The drawbacks now; even if it is more a differential analysis vs. weapons called in a similar fashion, these are related to the downgrading of profiles vs. the same ones borne by Kataphrons. The blasters and flamers loose 1 in S. But the Heavy Arc rifle is the most affected as it looses 1 A and goes to Rapid Fire 1. Seen the sizes of the guns, it is not that surprising for the single handed weapons but more puzzling for the Heavy Arc Rifle.

 

My only regret is that this datasheet has not been split in 2: I would have liked an Underseer as a new class of subcharacter rather than a leader stuck and diluted into the Servitor unit. I guess I will pick one anyway when it will be released…

 

Other point of deception; the specialized servitors included into the KT kit are not considered in this datasheet. Not a surprise anyway. It has been the case already for other KT once transposed to 40k...

[MagicHat]

Too bad about the specialists. The Auto-proxy would probably just have been a taser, but the breacher and medic would have been nice to have.

 

I'd still run the unit. 60 PTS? For 9 models with T4 Sv4 + 6++ and action after running and can shoot with reasonable impact for the price.

I don't think I would put a character with them but they look perfectly fine running on their own doing VP things.